Automatic relation extraction for building smart city ecosystems using dependency parsing

Understanding and analysing rapidly changing and growing business ecosystems, like smart city and mobility ecosystems, becomes increasingly difficult. However, the understanding of these ecosystems is the key to being successful for all involved parties, like companies and public institutions. Modern Natural Language Processing technologies can help to automatically identify and extract relevant information from sources like online news and blog articles and hence support the analysis of complex ecosystems. In this paper, we present an approach to automatically extract directed relations between entities within business ecosystems from online news and blog articles by using dependency parsing.